If it is not a tragical life we live, then I know not what to call it. Such a story as that of Jesus Christ,--the history of Jerus...alem, say, being a part of the Universal History. The naked, the embalmed, unburied death of Jerusalem amid its desolate hills,--think of it. In Tasso's poem I trust some things are sweetly buried. Consider the snappish tenacity with which they preach Christianity still. What are time and space to Christianity, eighteen hundred years, and a new world?--that the humble life of a Jewish peasant should have force to make a New York bishop so bigoted. Forty-four lamps, the gift of kings, now burning in a place called the Holy Sepulchre; a church-bell ringing; some unaffected tears shed by a pilgrim on Mount Calvary within the week.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

When the Church of JesusShuts its outer door,...Lest the roar of trafficDrown the voice of prayer:May our prayers, Lord, make usTen times more awareThat the world we banishIs our Christian care.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Philosophic argument, especially that drawn from the vastness of the universe, in comparison with the apparent insignificance of t...his globe, has sometimes shaken my reason for the faith that is in me; but my heart has always assured and reassured me that the gospel of Jesus Christ must be Divine Reality. The Sermon on the Mount cannot be a mere human production. This belief enters into the very depth of my conscience. The whole history of man proves it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Theologians should not be ashamed to admit that they cannot enter a contest with such antagonists [the sceptics], and that they do... not want to expose the Gospel truths to such an attack. The ship of Jesus Christ is not made for sailing on this stormy sea, but for taking shelter from this tempest in the haven of faith.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

There are no lower or higher or median moralities. There is only one morality, and it is precisely the one that was given to us du...ring the time of Jesus Christ and that stops me, you and Barantsevich from stealing, offending others, lying etc.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Without our suffering, our work would just be social work, very good and helpful, but it would not be the work of Jesus Christ, no...t part of the Redemption.... All the desolation of the poor people, not only their material poverty, but their spiritual destitution, must be redeemed. And we must share it, for only by being one with them can we redeem them by bringing God into their lives and bringing them to God.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »